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Minnesota Statewide Conservation and
Preservation Plan
Forest Values & Carbon Markets: Opportunities for
Minnesota2/26/09
A comprehensive inventory and assessment of Minnesota’s environment and natural resources
• Status check on our natural resources
• Identify drivers causing change in our resources
• Identify key issues affecting our natural resources
• Recommendations for actions to change course for better outcomes for our natural resources
What is the Statewide Conservation and Preservation Plan?
• LCCMR strategic planning/RFPs
• Lessard Outdoor Heritage Council
• Agency planning
• New legislation
• Local governments
Why was the Plan created and how is it being used?
Page 8 Final Plan
Status of Natural Resources
Strategic FrameworkStrategic Framework
Mapped to Key Issues
Habitat LossLand Use Practice
TransportationEnergy Use,
Mercury
Resulting in Strategic Areas for Action
Integrated Planning
Critical Land Protection
Land & Water Restoration
Sustainability Practices
Economic Incentives for Sustainability
PHASE II:
Soil Erosion
Nutrient Loading
Solids Loading
Toxics Loading
Habitat Fragmentation
Consumptive Use
Hydrologic Modification
Invasive Species
GHG emissions
Affected by Drivers of Change
Air Water Land FishWildlife Recreation
PHASE I:
Page 7 Final Plan
Value of the Recommendation for Climate Change Mitigation or
Adaptation
• UM Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) research has shown a large potential for producing cellulosic ethanol from forest biomass
• Potential for 0.5 to 1 billion gallons of ethanol
• Hybrid poplar plantations have the potential to produce approximately 5 tons/ac
• Other potential sources include thinning of aspens and red pines, roundwood, harvest residue from logging operations, and brushlands harvesting
Biomass and carbon sequestration research
• Another study by the UM for the DNR (UM 2008) shows that perennial crops sequester more carbon than annual row crops
• Producing cellulosic ethanol from perennial tree crops would sequester more atmospheric carbon than any other production technique
• Converting row crops to short rotation woody tree crops (such as hybrid poplar) would sequester nearly 2 tons of carbon/year
• Converting row crops to perennial grasses would only sequester about 0.4 tons carbon/ year
Biomass and carbon sequestration research
• Land Use - Forestry 1: Protect large blocks of forested land for ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change
• Land Use - Forestry 3: Support and expand sustainable practices on working forested lands, including developing and testing new management practices for forest management as a carbon sequestration tool
Resilience to climate change and Carbon sequestration
• Energy 3: Invest in perennial biofuel and energy crop research and demonstration projects on a landscape scale
• Energy 4: Develop policies and incentives to encourage perennial crop production for biofuels in critical environmental areas
Carbon sequestration
• Habitat 1: Protect priority land habitats
• Habitat 2: Protect critical shorelands of streams and lakes
• Adaptation to climate change must be considered
• In the face of climate change we should still protect critical areas, however, the nature of these critical areas may change
• Research is needed
Adaptation to climate change
Vulnerable key habitat by
township and by Ecological
Subsection
High/Green = higher habitat
value and higher threats
Low/Yellow = lower habitat
value and lower threats
How will these key habitat
priorities change with climate
change?
Mitigation of climate change
• Energy 16: Provide incentives to transition a portion of Minnesota’s vehicle fleet to electrical power, while simultaneously increasing renewable electricity production for transportation
• Energy 17: Encourage carbon-neutral businesses, homes, communities
• Transportation 2: Reduce per capita vehicle miles of travel (VMT) through compact mixed-use development and multi-modal and intermodal transportation systems
Project Goal
To achieve a better future
for Minnesota’s
natural resources
Access the plan at:www.lccmr.leg.mn/
Questions about the Statewide Conservation and Preservation Plan
or this presentation:
Jean Coleman
612-588-4904